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Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.

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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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Helen E Fisher
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Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.
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The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.
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You know, when you've been dumped, the one thing you love to do is just forget about this human being, and then go on with your life - but no, you just love them harder.
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At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.
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It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful.
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I don’t think we’re an animal that was built to be happy we are an animal that was built to reproduce.
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Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'
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What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and capture. It's not about honesty. Many men and women, when they're playing the courtship game, deceive so they can win. Novelty, excitement and danger drive up dopamine in the brain. And both sexes brag.
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You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.
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When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking up information from the lips and tongue.
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Women have never been as interesting as they are now. Not at any time on this planet have women been so educated, so interesting, so capable.
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People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies.
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Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.
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As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not only underestimated women, but also men.
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We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes.
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If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.
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Neither gender is routinely more jealous - although women are more willing to work to win back a lover, while men tend to flaunt their money and status and are more likely to walk out to protect their self-esteem or save face.
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